US Army Southern California Recruiting Battalion
10X10 booth with interactive, STEM-based hands on displays.
San Diego State University
San Diego State University representatives from science, health and engineering will provide engaging and interactive activities for students and families of all ages. Touch urchins wearing hats, code your own bracelet, build neurons out of pipe cleaners, explore the solar system in virtual reality and more! Learn directly from the SDSU researchers and innovators leading San Diego to new heights in STEM.
Mad Science of San Diego
We can offer 2 to 3 booth with fun and interactive activities.
• MAGNETISM – Kids try to build a bridge using metal objects and strong magnets on wooden pegs.
• OPTICAL ILLUSIONS – Kids explore a variety of optical illusion items.
• ECSTATIC ELECTRICITY – Kids try to make their way through a metal maze without making the buzzer go off. Along with other fun electric gadgets.
California State University Program for Biotechnology (CSUBIOTECH)
Host a booth to showcase the work of biotechnology in the Cal State University system. CSUBIOTECH provides grants and awards, organizes the annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium, promotes industry-responsive curricular innovations, and serves as a liaison between the CSU and government, regional and biotechnology industry partners, including philanthropic partners.
San Diego Mesa College: Psychology/Psi Beta National Honor Society
Experience your world in fun and fascinating ways. Learn how your brain interprets your visual world and how your thoughts and memories affect what you know. See how visual illusions present images that make you question what you see. Experience how your mind processes information. The activities reveal the fascinating ways that Psychological Science explores how we understand behaviors and mental processes. Want to understand more about what people do and how they think? Come find out!
SDSU Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders
Brain puzzles, brain health info for kids and adults
SDSU Center for Autism
Brain-themed coloring and mazes, brain trivia games, Stroop effect demonstration (kids say the color of the word, not what the word says), pipe cleaner neuron activity (kids make a neuron out of pipe cleaner and plastic beads to take home)
UCSD Center for Healthy Eating and Activity Research
The booth will display our opportunities to participate in classes to learn more about healthy eating and exercise. We will have activities to educate children on healthy eating and encourage exercise. We will also have a "Sugar Display" that demonstrates the dangerous levels of sugar in some of the most common drinks.
San Diego Mesa College Psi Beta/Psychology Department
Guests will engage in a variety of interactive activities that highlight concepts from Psychological Science that touch upon brain, cognitive, perceptual processes and emotion. These activities will feature amazing visual illusions, captivating sensorimotor tasks, thought -provoking short term memory exercises, mapping of visual shapes to speech sounds, visual inversion and captivating tests for recognizing emotional facial expressions. These activities appeal to a wide range of guests.
